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Lansquenet

Lansquenet \Lans"que*net\, n. [F., fr. G. landsknecht a foot soldier, also a game of cards introduced by these foot soldiers; land country + knecht boy, servant. See Land, and Knight.]

  1. A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; -- a term used in France and Western Europe.

  2. A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet.

    [They play] their little game of lansquenet.
    --Longfellow.

Wiktionary
lansquenet

n. 1 (context countable historical English) Any of a class of German mercenaries in the 16th and 17th centuries. 2 (cx uncountable English) A card game, used for gambling.

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Lansquenet

Lansquenet (derived from the French spelling of German Landsknecht ('servant of the land or country'), applied to a mercenary soldier) is a card game. Lansquenet also refers to 15th- and 16th-century German foot soldiers; the lansquenet drum is a type of field drum used by these soldiers.

Usage examples of "lansquenet".

Then they all turn into windmills: the monks, the knights, nuns, couriers and lansquenets, the Prussian grenadiers and Natzmer uhlans, the Merovingians and Carolingians, and in between, popping like weasels, our midgets.

The leaders of the German lansquenets are corrupted, and will bring over their men.